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Information Technology

Cloud based environment for software development on Amazon

Rating: 8 out of 10

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August 5, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

AWS Cloud9 is being used as the cloud-based IDE by my team and part of the organization. The business problems it solves is the need for an integrated environment that allows for pair programming. This helps reduce bugs and other issues when it comes to writing some application code. Since it is cloud-based, we don't have to save the code and push it back and forth anymore, thus saving time.

Pros

Environment isolation
Pair programming
Software development and code editor

Cons

Code highlighting
Code folding
Plugins and extensions
Localized editing

Likelihood to Recommend

AWS Cloud9 is great for product engineering and coding where you must take time to pair program and code in a specific isolated environment. It is entirely cloud based so there's no worry about saving and data consistency. It is all hosted on the Amazon Web Services cloud. It is less appropriate for more general workflows that don't require a specific cloud instance.

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Engineer in Engineering (Information Technology and Services company, 10,001+ employees)

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1 year of experience

An IDE of easy access and ideal use for the development of applications

Rating: 9 out of 10

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June 13, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

AWS Cloud9 is a very useful software that is used at the departmental level to carry out the development of large applications at the enterprise level, since it provides all the appropriate tools for the development team, offers different programming languages is easy to use and even allows us to work from anywhere by exchanging code between colleagues.

Pros

It provides an extremely intuitive and easy-to-use interface, so adapting to it does not take much time.
It contains the most common programming languages.
It allows the export of files, either directly to the repository or to the team where you want it.
It is housed in the cloud so you can work with it from anywhere.
Allows you to share code or work on them with others in real-time.
Does not require installation.

Cons

Sometimes it presents slowness when executing some project, which is somewhat annoying because it costs or takes time to execute larger projects.
It does not contain shortcut keys and it would be useful to execute the projects in a simpler and faster way.
It does not contain tabular.
When you open windows to share the codes, they tend to be slow or hang a bit.

Likelihood to Recommend

This software is suitable to carry out the development of projects on a large scale since it provides all the necessary tools to be able to carry out this process, being something really advantageous since in this way the productivity is increased in a favorable way business.

One of the scenarios in which this tool is not appropriate is for when you do not have Internet access since it is only available online, so if you want to use it in a place where you do not have access It will not be possible.

It is ideal to work from anywhere, not necessarily from the business office so that as long as you have access to the internet it is possible to code and collaborate on projects with other colleagues.

It is also extremely suitable for SCRUM projects since different people can work with the same code at the same time.

maría jose gonzalez ortiz

Software Developer in Information Technology at KANA Software (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees)

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1 year of experience

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AWS Cloud 9 --Great Code Editor that integrates well with AWS Processes

Rating: 8 out of 10

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May 24, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our company is using many components of AWS for our ingestion data migration process, from an AS400 system to our Cloud Database through AWS and Snowflake Computing. AWS Cloud9 is being used to debug and implement code that is crucial for our ingestion build with our AWS CLI.

Pros

Allows you to write, debug and create code all from a web browser.
No need to install local applications to run code.
The Cloud9 Dashboard is intuitive and user-friendly.

Cons

We're unable to get into the IDE environment at times.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited for any size business. My company, which is a larger company, uses this with our various environments. AWS Cloud9 is a feature that we do not use very often, but only when we are changing our code. It is a good alternative to writing code on applications like command prompt for your processes.

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Employee in Information Technology (Automotive company, 10,001+ employees)

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1 year of experience

Excellent tool for the development of applications and collaboration through code

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

February 26, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use AWS Cloud9 in the software development department since it is a great environment that gives us all the necessary tools to develop software, from being able to execute code, debug, and have access to the most common programming languages. In addition to being really useful, we can use it from anywhere, being able to collaborate with the team either as a couple exchanging ideas that improve the project.

Pros

It is a great IDE that can be used from any place where you have a connection to an internet network.
It offers programming languages mostly used for the development of applications or software.
Allows collaboration through code, allowing you to interact with the other person.
Its interface is very simple and easy to use.
It is not necessary to configure files or add-ons for the equipment used since this software provides the same for what is a great time-saving.

Cons

According to the project that is being executed it can become slow.
It does not have the basic text manipulators.
Shared terminals sometimes take a while to display.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is ideal to work in collaboration since when exchanging ideas and coding in real time the development of the project becomes much simpler and more productive. It is the perfect tool to save time since it is not necessary to configure any file or prepare the computer. This is because it is in the cloud and offers everything necessary so that we simply have to write, execute or debug our code using the language of programming that we want. If you want to work on a very large project it can be somewhat complicated because it allows the collaboration between two people so the completion of it can be durable.

Hanna Bedoya

Software Developer in Research & Development at iModules (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)

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1 year of experience

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Great Lambda support, but worth looking for some alternatives.

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

January 24, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

AWS Cloud9 is used by our company to work on smaller projects that can be fully developed and maintained in one IDE. Cloud9 is great for editing and working on Lambda functions, and provides similar comprehensive IDE functionality, but in a purely-online experience. Cloud9 works seamlessly with a variety of frameworks and other languages that we also use for development, like databases, Shell scripts, Python, Node.js, JavaScript, and multiple web frameworks.

Pros

Great, fast interface - There is a large list of shortcuts that make development on this IDE an experience that can sometimes even compare to something native.
Integrated debugging/troubleshooting - AWS Cloud9 has integrated debugging tools that are quite well-designed.
Lambda integrations - Cloud9 allows you to instantly run and maintain Lambda functions. It's probably the best IDE for developing on AWS Lambda.

Cons

Confusing documentation - AWS's documentation remains quite confusing, and the layout of other services/settings that you have to use with Cloud9 can be a bit of a handful.
Sometimes slow - As the size of a project increases, the editor gets increasingly slower, and starts slowing down the browser overall.
Long setup process - The setup for Cloud9 can be hard and tough, especially since the documentation is quite hard to understand.

Likelihood to Recommend

Cloud9 provides great integrations and support for existing AWS services (especially AWS Lambda). Besides that, if your company has good dev-ops, it is worth considering that the development environment gets quite slow as the size increases. Like many other cloud computing services, there are good integrations with other cloud services of the company, but beyond that, not really much good integrations support. Cloud9 is a good example of this. The same applies for other cloud computing services - it is worth consolidating to one service to get the best support across cloud products.

Fedor Paretsky

Co-Founder/CEO in Engineering at aspace, Inc. (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)

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1 year of experience

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